http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/2006/07/20/is-text-messaging-synchronous/ Economics; Travel; Film; and Technology. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:50:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/2006/07/20/is-text-messaging-synchronous/comment-page-1/#comment-5686 Andrew Ferrier’s Blog » Blog Archive » Sexual Synchronicity Economics Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:01:48 +0000 http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/blog/2006/07/20/is-text-messaging-synchronous/#comment-5686 [...] I’ve written about synchronicity vs. asynchronicity before, but I wanted to revisit the subject because it seems to be so key to modern services; as more and more communication mechanisms evolve out of available technology and entrepreneurs’ imagination, understanding customer’s usage patterns will be important when developing businesses around them. An excellent article by Gregor Hohpe, Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (included in Joel Spolsky’s Best Software Writing Vol. 1), is an examination of why understanding computer science concepts such as 2PC (and, I would argue, synchronicity) is important when engaging in business process engineering. There’s a large overlap between business and software engineering here, and this is why IBM sells products like WebSphere Process Server together with business consultants to help customers implement them. There are a number of other essays in Spolsky’s excellent book which also discuss related subjects. [...] [...] I’ve written about synchronicity vs. asynchronicity before, but I wanted to revisit the subject because it seems to be so key to modern services; as more and more communication mechanisms evolve out of available technology and entrepreneurs’ imagination, understanding customer’s usage patterns will be important when developing businesses around them. An excellent article by Gregor Hohpe, Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (included in Joel Spolsky’s Best Software Writing Vol. 1), is an examination of why understanding computer science concepts such as 2PC (and, I would argue, synchronicity) is important when engaging in business process engineering. There’s a large overlap between business and software engineering here, and this is why IBM sells products like WebSphere Process Server together with business consultants to help customers implement them. There are a number of other essays in Spolsky’s excellent book which also discuss related subjects. [...]

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